1 As Lily turned, and settled to completer rest, a strand of her hair swept Gerty's cheek with its fragrance.
2 Montcalm lingered long and melancholy on the strand where he had been left by his companion, brooding deeply on the temper which his ungovernable ally had just discovered.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 17 3 The crowded mirror of the Horican was gone; and, in its place, the green and angry waters lashed the shores, as if indignantly casting back its impurities to the polluted strand.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18 4 Break like ripples on the strand.
5 They rowed about a league, and then set me down on a strand.
6 Mrs Bolton put aside a strand of hair from her face, with the back of her hand.
7 The Lido, with its acres of sun-pinked or pyjamaed bodies, was like a strand with an endless heap of seals come up for mating.
8 There was a long rivulet in the strand and, as he waded slowly up its course, he wondered at the endless drift of seaweed.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 9 He turned away from her suddenly and set off across the strand.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 10 The strand is perfectly dry, but at every step that he takes, as soon as the foot is raised, the print is filled with water.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ... 11 Sometimes a rider is engulfed with his horse; sometimes the carter is swallowed up with his cart; all founders in that strand.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ... 12 We all looked in silence at Mrs. Wilson who removed a strand of hair from over her eyes and looked back at us with a brilliant smile.
13 But the grim sailor admits now one and now another, while some he pushes back far apart on the strand.
14 She looked in the mirror and automatically pushed up loose strands of hair but she did not see her own reflection.
15 The glare of the unshaded gas shone familiarly on her pock-marked face and the reddish baldness visible through thin strands of straw-coloured hair.